BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:66@junginoc.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171022T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171022T180000 DTSTAMP:20240823T020728Z URL:https://junginoc.org/events/2017-10-22-makbuleh/ SUMMARY:Job’s Answer to Jung: Rumi\, St. John\, Kabbalah\, & Jung on the Alchemy of Suffering DESCRIPTION:Job’s Answer to Jung: \nRumi\, St. John\, Kabbalah\, &\; J ung on the Alchemy \nof Suffering\nPresented by\nMitra Makbuleh\, PhD\nlin k to audio file\nSunday\, 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM\, October 22nd\, 2017\nWritten in 1952\, Carl Jung’s Answer to Job remains one of his most thought-pro voking and controversial works. While Jung’s audacious interpretation of this biblical tale is praiseworthy for the challenges it poses to the lit eral-minded\, there are reasons to believe that his peculiar stance regard ing Job’s predicament was colored by his own personal concerns\, his int ense psychic suffering\, and his inner desire to reconcile the opposition between Freud and himself\, Judaism and Christianity\, Man and God\, God a nd Satan\, and Good and Evil.\nAfter a brief exploration of the inner psyc hological dynamics that led to Jung’s Answer to Job\, we will embark on a journey of discovery to find out what Job’s answer to Jung might look like if Job could respond to Jung with the wisdom of the Sufi mystic Rumi\ , the Christian mystic St. John of the Cross\, and the Jewish Kabbalists. We will explore how these mystics have looked at the central questions at the heart of the story of Job: Why do the righteous suffer? If God is all good and all loving\, why is there so much evil and suffering? Is Jehovah/ God an unconscious narcissistic bully easily provoked by Satan? How can hu man free will be reconciled with God’s omniscience and omnipotence? And finally\, what can the alchemical symbolism hidden in the Book of Job teac h us about dealing with our individual and collective suffering in today ’s turbulent world?\nCourse objectives:\nExplore and compare how mystics from different traditions have interpreted the story of Job.\nDecipher th e alchemical symbolism hidden in the Book of Job.\nSeek ways that the Book of Job can help us deal with present-day individual and collective suffer ing.\nDr. Mitra Makbuleh\, PhD\, received her undergraduate degrees in Soc iology\, Anthropology\, and Political Science at Tel Aviv University\, and completed two Masters Degrees and a PhD in Research Psychology\, Comparat ive Religion\, and Public Health at UCI and UCLA. She also received a post doctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to conduct research on cancer and stress at the department of Epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health.\nDr. Makbuleh specializes in Spiritual Psychology which is a unique integration of the wisdom of Kabbalah\, Sufism\, and other ancien t mystical traditions and the insights of Jungian psychology. She conducts counseling sessions on individuation\, stress-management\, dream interpre tation\, and personal growth in southern California and teaches public sem inars on spiritual psychology\, Sufism\, Kabbalah\, and Unity of Religions in United States and beyond.\nDr. Makbuleh has published over 120 Persian and English articles in both popular magazines and research journals. She has also published two books in Farsi and is currently completing a third book on the link between Spirituality\, Creativity\, and Suffering which will be published in English in 2018. Mitra is also passionately involved in promoting interfaith harmony and holds monthly interfaith gatherings in various locations in Orange County. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://junginoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ 2efa49_cb3574916e69435cb0e382c99696ccc6mv2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR